RE: Does PATH need a new attribute?

Hello,

currently one can use stroke-dasharry (together maybe with use elements or 
entities) to apply different stroke decorations) to different fractions of a 
path.
Of course, currently, to apply it only to different segments, it
requires calculation of the path length of segments of a path, at least
for elliptical arcs and cubic segments not a trivial task for authors -
and a source of possible implementation bugs due to accuracy problems
for numerical algorithms to determine the length of a segment.
Currently authors can only provide information about their result
for the complete path to ensure that implementations align their
results, this would be necessary for each segment for such a 
use case and some others as well.

Maybe if this turns out to be a more often required use case, there
should be another attribute extending/alternating either the meaning of
stroke-dasharray or having such a functionality additionally to
stroke-dasharray. 
In both cases however one has to define in detail what happens
on the beginning and end of a segment concering the 
interaction with some other stroke-properties.



Olaf

Received on Friday, 17 April 2015 11:57:29 UTC